Quotes
Jace to Isabelle, pg. 194
City of Bones"Drive fast, mundane. Drive like hell was following you."
City of Bones"Well, you can go ahead and hang your head out of the car window if you feel like it."
Luke laughed. "I'm a werewolf, not a golden retriever."
City of Bones"I can't wait 'til you draw something really complicated, like the Brooklyn Bridge or a lobster. You'll probably send me a singing telegram."
City of Bones"Seeing through glamour is easy. It's people that are hard."
City of Bones"Don't tell me," he said. "You've got a drawing emergency. You need a nude model. Well, I'm not in the mood. You could ask Hodge."
City of Bones"It's been so long that I think I was unsettled by the idea of feeling like I belonged anywhere. But you made me feel like I belong."
City of Bones"Was it weird hearing from Jace? I mean, since you found out . . ."
"Yes? Since I found out what? That he's a killer transvestite who molests cats?"
"No wonder that cat of his hates everyone."
City of Bones"Wait a second."
"I never understand why people say that," Luke said, to no one in particular. "I wasn't going anywhere."
City of BonesOnly Jace could look cool in pajama bottoms and an old T-shirt, but he pulled it off, probably through sheer force of will.
City of BonesThat sounds terrific. Just you, your comatose wife, your shell-shocked son, and you daughter who hates your guts. Not to mention that your two kids may be in love with each other. Yeah, that sounds like a perfect family reunion.
City of Bones"Sorry, are you telling me that your demon-slaying buddies need to be driven to their next assignation with the forces of darkness by my mom?"
City of Bones"It's the Mortal Cup, Jace, not the Mortal Toilet Bowl."
City of Bones"I forgot that's what gets you all hot and bothered, Jace. Girls killing things."
"I like anyone killing things," He said equably, "Especially me."
City of Bones"So she had a box. Lots of people have boxes. They keep things in them. It's a growing trend, I hear."
City of Bones"Honestly Jace, don't you know better than to play with broken glass?"
City of Bones"The nod means, 'I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.'"
City of Bones"Demonic activity levels? Do they have a device that measures whether the demons inside the house are doing power yoga?"
City of Bones"Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."
"At least you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland."
"Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting."
City of Bones"Do you think it was a coincidence?"
"Do I think what was a coincidence?"
"That we wound up in Pandemonium the same night that Jace and the others just happened to be there, pursuing a demon? The night before Valentine came for my mother?"
Simon shook his head. "I don't believe in coincidences."
"Neither do I."
"But I have to admit, coincidence or not, it turned out to be a fortuitous occurrence."
City of BonesJace was still staring at her as if she'd told him she'd found out one of the Silent Brothers doing nude cartwheels in the hallway.
City of Bones"You know, most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction."
"Ah, that might explain why I so often run into people who seem to dislike me."
City of Bones"Well there goes my plan for selling them on eBay," Clary muttered.
"Selling them on what?"
Clary smiled blandly at him. "A mythical place of great magical power."
City of Bones"Vials of holy water, blessed knives, steel and silver blades, electrum wire-- not much use at the moment, but it's always good to have a spare--silver bullets, charm of protection, crucifixes, stars of David-"
"Jesus," said Clary.
"I doubt he'd fit."
City of Bones"Do you want to tell me what this is about, or should I just call the police?"
"And tell them what?" Jace said witheringly. "That invisible people are bothering you? Trust me, little girl, the police aren't going to arrest someone they can't see."
City of Bones"Meanwhile," Simon added, "I wanted to tell you that lately I've been cross-dressing. Also, I'm sleeping with your mom. I thought you should know."
City of Bones"Much like postal service, demon hunters never sleep. 'Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these-'"
"You'd be in major trouble if gloom of night did stay you."
City of Bones"Jesus!" Luke exclaimed. "Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling."
City of Bones"If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood,"
City of Bones"When the self-congratulatory part of the evening is over, maybe we could get back to saving my best friend from being exsanguinated to death?"
City of Bones"Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie."
City of Bones"In future, Clarissa," he said, "it might be wise to mention that you already have a man in your bed, to avoid such tedious situations."
City of BonesHe cut his glance toward Jace, who was walking a few paces ahead of them, apparently conversing with the cat. Clary wondered what they were talking about. Politics? Opera? The high price of tuna?
City of Bones"Hi, I'm one of the knife-carrying hooligans you met last night in Pandemonium? I'm afraid I made a bad impression and was hoping you'd give me a chance to make it up to- "
"SIMON!" Clary held the phone away from her ear as he cracked up laughing. "That is so not funny!"
City of Bones"Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you'd get dressed up in a nurse's outfit and give me a sponge bath?"
"Actually, I think you misheard," Clary said. "It was Simon who promised you the sponge bath."
Jace looked involuntarily over at Simon, who smiled at him widely. "As soon as I'm back on my feet, handsome."
"I knew we should have left you a rat."
City of Bones"It's a girl," Jace said, recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one."
City of Bones"Oh-Simon!"
"No, I'm Jace," said Jace patiently. "Simon is the weaselly little one with the bad haircut and dismal fashion sense."
City of Bones"I've never asked, but I'm sure he has a fairly stringent policy about random teenagers lurking in his shrubbery."
City of Bones"You really want to know what else it was my mom said about you?" he asked.
She shook her head.
He didn't seem to notice. "She said you'd break my heart."
City of Bones"If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have asked."
City of Bones"This is bad," said Jace.
"You said that before."
"It seemed worth repeating."
City of Bones"He's probably never met a six-foot-tall hot elf-woman in a fur bikini, either,"
City of Bones"I thought it'd be something cooler, like a van with 'Death to Demons' painted on the outside, or . . ."
City of Bones"A picnic? It's a little late for Central Park, don't you think? It's full of-"
He waved a hand. "Faeries. I know."
"I was going to say muggers," said Clary. "Though I pity the mugger who goes after you."
City of Bones"Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually, he offered to wake you up himself, but since it's five a.m., I figured you'd be less cranky if you had something nice to look at."
City of Bones"Maybe. Although I doubt most Shadowhunters get a tattoo of Donatello from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on their left shoulder."
City of Bones"Is there anything I could get for you?" he asked. "Something to drink? Some tea?"
"I don't want tea," said Clary, with a muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her in the first place, and I want to kill them."
"Unfortunately," said Hodge, "we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing."
City of Bones"Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not," he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me."
City of Bones"I always thought cab drivers didn't pay attention to traffic, but this is ridiculous,"
City of Bones"A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance novel covers? The-"
City of Bones"Well, I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death."
City of Bones"I thought you guys said only some of the vampire bikes could fly?"
"Only some of them can!"
"How did you know this was one of them?"
"I didn't!"
City of Bones"What?" Simon looked alarmed. "I'm not really sleeping with your mom, you know. I was just trying to get your attention. Not that your mom isn't a very attractive woman, for her age."
City of Bones"If you were half as funny as you thought you were, my boy, you'd be twice as funny as you are."
City of Bones"I didn't," said Jace. "At least, I didn't finish it. It's Magnus Bane." He grinned at Alec mockingly. "Rhymes with 'overcareful pain in the ass.'"
City of Bones"Well you'll have to wait 'til tomorrow. I'm out of commission." He pointed at himself. "Look. Jammies."
City of Bones"I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners."
City of Bones"I suppose you don't have much time for enjoying music," Clary said, thinking of Simon, for whom music was his entire life, "in your line of work."
He shrugged. "Maybe the occasional wailing chorus of the damned."
City of Bones"Where's Simon?" Clary interrupted.
Isabelle wobbled. "He's a rat," she said darkly.
"Did he do something to you?" Alec was full of brotherly concern. "Did he touch you? If he tried anything-"
"No, Alec," Isabelle said irritably. "Not like that. He's a rat"
City of Bones"Yeah, well, you clearly also couldn't be bothered to call me and tell me you were shacking up with some dyed-blond wanna-be goth you probably met at Pandemonium. After I spent the past three days wondering if you were dead."
"I was not shacking up," Clary said, glad of the darkness as the blood rushed to her face.
"And my hair is naturally blond," said Jace. "Just for the record."
City of Bones"Well, when I was five, I wanted my mother to let me go around and around inside the dryer with the clothes," Clary said. "The difference is, she didn't let me."
"Probably because going around and around inside a dryer can be fatal," Jace pointed out, "whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it."
City of Bones"I'll get the coffee if you find us a seat. What do you want?"
"Just coffee. Black – like my soul."
City of Bones"She was afraid you'd freak out? Start seeing demons in the White House?"
City of Bones"To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be destroyed."
City of Bones"Maybe you should have thought about that before you kissed me," he said.
"I kissed you?"
"Don't worry, it wasn't that memorable for me, either."
City of Bones"You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me."
"I was ninety percent sure."
"I see," Clary said.
There must have been something in her voice, because he turned to look at her. Her hand cracked across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. He put his hand to his cheek, more in surprise than pain. "What the hell was that for?"
"The other ten percent."
City of Bones"There might be a God, Clary, and there might not, but I don't think it matters. Either way, we're on our own."
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